TLDR 📣 Call for Contributions: Imagining the Internet(s) - A Collaborative Glossary 📅 15 September 2025 📒 Open-access zine with Institute of Network Cultures and supported by EASST| 🔗 https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp <https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp> __ Hi AoIR community! I am forwarding a call for a collaborative glossary on internet imaginaries, bringing together short entries (500–1000 words) that help us study how the internet has been imagined, shaped, and narrated across time and place. Concepts used to critically describe and conceptualise these visions often remain scattered and unconnected across fields and geographies. Imaginaries or imaginaire, network ideology or technotopia, net romanticism or cyberculture―there are dozens of sharp concepts and sticky notions that help understand the role of imagination and discourse in our hugely digitised, increasingly networked history. We’re inviting researchers, writers, and critical thinkers to contribute a keyword, concept, or term. Something that captures a specific way of seeing or structuring digital life. Entries can reflect theoretical insights, local histories, metaphors, or half-forgotten frameworks that once held things together. *The focus should be on research concepts helpful to study imaginaries, and not imaginaries themselves (e.g. a pitch on the research notion of “metaphor” instead of a pitch on a “cyberspace” as a particular metaphor)*. Please submit a keyword and a ~100 word pitch. The submission should also include a preliminary bibliography and a short bio. If you have any further questions, please contact the co-editors, Anya Shchetvina (anya.shchetvina[at]posteo.net) and Nathalie Fridzema (n.fridzema[at]rug.nl). Full call: https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp <https://matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp> Enjoy the summer ☀️ -- *Nathalie Fridzema* PhD candidate in Dutch early web cultures and digital heritage Reviews Coordinator TMG Journal for Media History LinkedIn <http://linkedin.com/in/nathalie-fridzema> | Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bSOBiE4AAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=sra> | Staff page <https://www.rug.nl/staff/n.fridzema/> University of Groningen, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies 🦋nathaliefridz.bsky.social / 🦣NathalieFridz.aoir.social ✨matterofimagination.neocities.org